Lexie

“It’s this: Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right. You have doubts because it makes sense for you to have doubts. Just like it made sense for me to have doubts. But remember the plan is not the goal. What is your goal?” “To save as many lives as possible, through every means possible.” “Be confident in that, and everything else will follow.” “Thank you,” Cardenia said, after a minute. “What you said about confidence makes sense to me.” “You’re welcome,” Rachela I said. “I read it in a book once.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

“Yes. The one advantage we had, which is a thing I brought to the enterprise, was the understanding that the plan was not the goal. The goal was the goal, and we were going to get to it however we could. And if it meant changing our plans, sometimes in the middle of executing them, then we would.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

“Hiding the past never works as well as simply neglecting it.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire

“Confidence isn’t about knowing you’re right. Confidence is about knowing you can make it right.”
― John Scalzi, The Consuming Fire